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FROM HIS HEREDITY experiments in the 19th century, Gregor Mendel concluded that smooth, green peas are dominant over wrinkled yellow ones, implying that three peas in a pod are not necessarily alike. The Currier House Fishbowl productions of three one-act plays support that basic tenet of biology...
Kinder-Care is the prodigy of Perry Mendel, 56, a stocky, effusive former real estate developer whom some call the Colonel Sanders of child care. He opened the first center in Montgomery in 1969, pouring in $15,000 of his own money and $185,000 from assorted investors. The company has spread to 23 states, swamping immature competition (La Petite Academies, with 115 units, is a distant second). Kinder-Care is growing almost daily, and two weeks ago, Mendel announced that his company will acquire for stock Living and Learning Centers. Inc., which now operates 33 centers in New England...
...months of this fiscal year they were up 65%. Kinder-Care stock, first offered in 1972, jumped from less than $1 in 1976 to $29 last week before a two-for-one split Friday. It has made a million dollars for each of 14 ground-floor investors from Montgomery; Mendel alone has stock profits of more than $5 million. Says Montgomery Investment Banker Nimrod Frazer, whose holdings are worth $335,000: "Kinder-Care is the biggest piece of capitalism that Montgomery has ever...
...divorce epidemic, inflation-all beckoned mothers to seek jobs outside the home. Even the decline in the birth rate boosted Kinder-Care. As school enrollments dropped, laid-off teachers were quite willing to work for Kinder-Care at the federal minimum of $2.65 an hour. Forty percent of Mendel's 2.300 day-care employees are former teachers; many of the rest are housewives in need of extra cash. Center directors receive only $11,000 a year, but Mendel offers them a plum: their kids can attend free...
Watson's citation reads: Precocious investigator, uninhibited author, inspiring teacher: Harvard celebrates a modern biological discovery that ranks with those of Darwin and Mendel, and heralds as new and revolutionary era in the life sciences...